By Victor Ochieng
A Muslim lawyer’s response to a white supremacist, who taunted him saying Islam is violent and asked him to show the Christian version of the ISIS, went viral on Sunday. Responding to the white guy, the lawyer shared a great and insightful history lesson with him, detailing some historical injustices and terrorist acts by professed Christians.
Qarim Rashid, a Washington D.C. lawyer, received a direct message on Twitter from an anti-Muslim white man, with the question, “Where’s the Christian version of ISIS and every other religion then?”
It appeared like the question just gave Rashid and opportunity to share his loads of history knowledge.
The first hard-hitting point Rashid mentioned is slavery. He told the white supremacist about the “400 years of Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that maimed, raped, killed, kidnapped, and enslaved 20 million Africans “heathens” to bring them to Christ.”
Then he went on to mention the genocide that targeted Native Americans with the aim of converting them to Christianity as Manifest Destiny. He didn’t fail to talk about the genocide committed against “Australian Aborigines that killed 90% of their population in less than a century, again by Christian Europeans” also adding the Salem Witch Trials, Spanish Inquisition, Crusades and The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in Uganda.
About the LRA, Rashid used past reports by the United Nations, noting that “The Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda that has maimed, raped, & killed up to 100,000 people according to the UN, during the past 15 years, which is far more destructive than ISIS, and they’ve done so to establish Biblical Law as a self-described Christian organization.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Rashid went ahead to bring another case in point, educating the white supremacist on the goings on in Central Africa Republic, where “Christian Militias have destroyed every single mosque and the UN reports that Muslims are facing ethnic cleansing, with reports that Christians are cannibalizing Muslims.”
In case the accounts shared by Rashid were too far away for his “student,” he decided to bring him back home (America), where “white supremacists who are self-described Christian are the single largest terror threat to American security,” with the information coming from a report published last year based on a study conducted by the FBI and 392 other police agencies.
But how could Rashid be done with the white supremacist before mentioning George Bush? Why Bush, by the way? The former president, “a devout Christian, said God told him to invade Iraq, where by some estimates 1 million civilians were killed due to this unjust war.” How about the KKK, Nazis and Aryan nations? Don’t they still exist? Of course, they exist, and that too was mentioned by Rashid.
In conclusion, Rashid said, “So before you question any Muslim about ISIS (which btw is the result of that Iraq bombing and not the result of the Qur’an) please check yourself,” adding, “Pretty sure it was Jesus who said something about motes and beams and judge not lest ye be judged.”
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